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EAST END FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS (2006)
The
2006 East End Film Festival put together a huge variety of shorts over the course of 7 nights split divided into Documentaries, Fiction, Animation, Student East, and Tower Hamlets & Hackney Film Programme. All UK productions, or co-productions, many with a strong East End basis they prove the bed of talent in UK Film Industry is very much thriving.
EASTERN PROMISES (2007)
Thriller from Director
David Cronenberg re-teaming him with his
A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen. The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikoli, who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families.
ED WOOD (1994)
Ed Wood, a bio-flick about The World's Worst Director by one of the world's best. The film is set in the 1950s and follows Ed Wood, a somewhat highly optimistic movie director as he attempts to do what he loves best, make motion pictures.
EDUKATORS, THE (Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei) (2004)
A wealthy family discover that their house has been broken into. Nothing has been stolen, but their furniture has been piled in the middle of the room and ornaments and knick-knacks have been chaotically rearranged. There is a note pinned up for them: "Your days of plenty are numbered" - signed The Edukators.
EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW (2004)
An impressive document dealing with all aspects of Said's life and work: His childhood and early influences, his academic life, his involvement in the Palestinian liberation struggle and the effect of his leukemia.
EIGHT BELOW (2006)
Eight Below is the latest Disney blockbuster to touch our screens. Another canine hero movie, but this time inspired by the true story of a Japanese Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Set mainly around the US Science Centre, Antarctic, the story focuses on the perilous adventure and survival of 8 sled dogs.
EL BONAERENSE (2002)
The Bonaerense is the name of the Buenos Aires police force and this film focuses on one man's experiences as a member of this force.
ELEPHANT (2003)
In 2002,
Elephant won the Palme D'Or at Cannes and was subsequently panned by critics. A controversial film inspired by the spate of high school killing sprees in the States, it spends eighty minutes building up an authentic picture of contemporary high school life, and ten minutes shooting it down.
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (2007)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the second in a proposed trilogy dramatizing the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the monarch who betrothed herself to England as the self-styled Virgin Queen.
ELLA ENCHANTED (2004)
Based on Gail Carson Levine's novel, this update of the classic Cinderella story is the highly stylized tale of Ella (Hathaway), a young woman who was given a "gift" of obedience by a generous but misguided fairy godmother.
ELLIE PARKER (2006)
Expanded from a short film by actor/director Scott Coffey, this Los Angeles-set comedy follows its title character through a series of humiliations as she struggles to establish herself in Hollywood without sacrificing her identity or integrity.
ENDURING LOVE (2004)
Roger Michell's adaptation of Ian McEwan's story of love and obsession opens with great flair. A terrible incident has a fantastic and horribly real quality that is complemented by the disjointed speech and bizarre actions when a chance meeting with a strange man marks the beginning of a dangerous obsession.
ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001)
As if war wasn't complicated enough already, director Jean-Jacques Annaud introduces a love-triangle twist into this tale of the Russian defence of Stalingrad against the Nazis in 1942.
EQUILIBRIUM (2002)
Equilibrium looks like
Metropolis and
Citizen Kane, is dressed like
The Matrix, and contains overtones of
Blade Runner. It's a familiar, futuristic tale of human nature suppressed and repressed into conformity through the wonder drug Prozium.
ERAGON (2006)
Eragon is an ordinary farm boy living a quiet life, until, on a hunting trip in the King’s forest, the adventure of a lifetime begins as, in a flash of light a glowing blue stone appears at his feet. When, later, he examines his unusual find, it begins to tremble and hatch, revealing a spectacular creature…
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
As with
Being John Malkovich and
Adaptation, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman delivers a densely fabricated world of fantasy and what-if.
Eternal Sunshine tells the tale of broken lovers Joel and Clementine who try to soothe their pain with memory erasure.
EUROTRIP (2004)
From the producers of
Road Trip and
Old School comes another slice of
American Pie-style hi jinks, detailing the overseas shenanigans of a bunch of irrepressible and irresponsible US teens.
EVAN ALMIGHTY (2007)
Steve Carell (
The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine), reprises his role as the polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter of
Bruce Almighty, as the next one anointed by God (Morgan Freeman,
The Shawshank Redemption) to accomplish a holy mission to build an ark in this hilarious new comedy.
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (2005)
Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer,
Everything Is Illuminated is the story of a third generation Ukrainian Jewish American and his journey to the Ukraine in search his family's history, along with companions Alex Perchov, Alex's grandfather and 'distressed' guide dog, Sammy Davis Junior Junior.
EVIL (ONDSKAN) (2003)
Shocking and violent,
Evil takes a look at the self-perpetuating cycle of human savagery. The action is set in an elite boarding school, where young protagonist Erik is at the hands of the institution's 'fraternal upbringing', in which the older boys make life a living and bloody hell for the new boys.
EVIL ALIENS (2005)
Director Jake West has called this his love letter to all the trash horror movies that inspired him as an impressionable teen to make movies. The evidence is certainly there: the extreme gratuity of
Evil Dead and the endless gore splattering the walls sponged directly from
Braindead.
EXILED (2006)
For the first time since
The Mission in 1999, Anthony Wong (
Infernal Affairs) and Francis Ng (
Infernal Affairs 2) once again team up with Johnnie To and his regulars Roy Cheung (
Infernal Affairs 2), Lam Suet (
PTU), and Simon Yam (
Election) in another action-packed ensemble piece
Exiled.
EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, THE (2005)
After a slew of ill-advised forays into the difficult exorcism genre,
Emily Rose takes us back into the fray. Based on a real-life court case, it tells the story of Father Moore, arrested for negligence after an attempted exorcism leaves a girl dead.
EXORCIST, THE (1973)
Even before an entire generation was traumatised about shark attacks, they were terrified by the possibility of demonic possession. It's been described as the 'scariest film ever made', but the hardcore cinemaphile weaned on teen schlock horror may be unfazed by the almost mythical status of
The Exorcist.
EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)
Then real-life married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in
Eyes Wide Shut, the late Stanley Kubrick's final film, an exploration of a relationship slowly unraveling after both real and imaginary infidelity.
